Louvre Group G99

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Name-giving fragment in the Louvre

The Louvre G 99 group is a group of ancient Greek vase painters who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens were employed, respectively.

The Louvre G 99 group was active around the same time as the so-called " pioneer group " of the red-figure style . Within the vase painters active at the time, the Louvre G 99 group is to be added comparatively late. The representatives of the group belonged to the early red-figure bowl painters . Like other bowl painters of this time, the painters in the group did not yet test the possibilities of the new technology to the same depth as the representatives of the pioneer group on larger vases, due to the comparatively smaller work surface - the inside and the two outside of the bowls. Nevertheless, the bowl painters also contributed to the success of the new style.

John D. Beazley recognized the style of the group within the ten thousand-part inventory of well-known Attic red-figure vases and fragments and fundamentally put their works together. The surviving oeuvre of the group is very small and in Beazley's case only comprises one bowl and another, the eponymous bowl fragment. It is possible that the group is just a single painter, who would then be the painter of Louvre G 99 .

List of works

  1. Shell fragment; Louvre , Paris , inventory number G 99; Motif inside: embracing youth and woman under a coat or blanket
  2. Bowl; Museo provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano , Lecce , inventory number 575; Motif inside: young naked kneeling athlete with jumping weights

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², pp. 180, 1631.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 339.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 180.1; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  2. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 180.2; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Italy: Lecce, Museo provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano 1, p. III.IC4, plates: (157) 6.3 digitized ; Entry on the Beazley Archive website